Features
Project Finding the Story in 150 Million Rows of Data
Al Jazeera America’s Joanna S. Kao on annotating and visualizing the Adobe database hack.
Project How We Made the (New) California Cookbook
- By Megan Garvey, Erin Kissane, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- Megan Garvey, Lily Mihalik, Anthony Pesce
- The Los Angeles Times
At the Los Angeles Times, a design-editorial-programming team has resurrected the spirit of the beloved, out-of-print California Cookbook as a new website collecting hundreds of recipes from the Times Test Kitchen. In our Q&A, the project’s editor, designer, and lead programmer share their goals and challenges, and offer a peek at the site’s building blocks and planned future.
Tool SecureDrop, the Open-Source Submission Platform for Journalists and Whistleblowers
Freedom of the Press Foundation executive director Trevor Timm discusses SecureDrop’s evolution and future prospects.
Tool How Promotion Affects Pageviews on the New York Times Website
2013 OpenNews fellow Brian Abelson has been conducting research on pageviews as a metric, and on the relationship between pageviews and promotion at the New York Times during his fellowship there. This article is cross-posted from his blog.
How-to Network Diagrams Are Hard
Alyson Hurt digs into the challenges of producing legible, useful network diagrams using evolving web technologies and methods.
Tool The Code Behind AJAM’s Displaced Syrians App
Al Jazeera America’s Michael Keller introduces the three new open source libraries behind AJA’s displaced Syrians interactive app.
Project How We Made Lobbying Missouri
- By Danny DeBelius, Christopher Groskopf, Erin Kissane, Matt Stiles
- Danny DeBelius, Christopher Groskopf, Matt Stiles
- NPR, St. Louis Public Radio
Lobbying Missouri is a collaboration between St. Louis Public Radio and members of NPR’s news apps teams. We spoke with three team members about the project, their design process, and the code under the hood.
Roundup US Elections Roundup, November 2013
A light round of elections were held this week in the US, giving news developers an opportunity to outdo their usual coverage. We’ve rounded up a few highlights.
How-to Watching the Results Change
Jacob Harris on the challenges of reporting and calling elections and the making of the NYT’s chart of minute-by-minute Virginia governor’s race reporting action.
Interview NPR’s Brian Boyer on Building and Managing News Apps Teams
Yesterday, NPR announced that news apps team leader Brian Boyer was assuming a new role as head of the combined news apps/multimedia superteam. Boyer offers the unusual experience of having built out two news apps teams within five years, first at the Chicago Tribune and then at NPR. We spoke with him about his new gig, his path from computer science to journalism, his focus on sound process, and the internal obstacles new teams can face.
Roundup Event Roundup, Nov 4
- By Erika Owens
This week, Boston hosts a data festival and Complicity in Berlin brings hackers and journalists together to discuss collaboration.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 28
- By Erika Owens
Mozilla Festival participants descend on Hacks/Hackers London and Berlin this week, while this weekend the Americas Datafest takes on the topic of migration.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 21
- By Erika Owens
This week is the Mozilla Festival where we’re organizing two tracks: journalism and open data, plus, you’ll get to find out who the 2014 Knight-Mozilla Fellows are.
Interview John Keefe on leading a news development team
Today is Source’s one-year anniversary. To celebrate, we’re kicking off a new series of interviews with news apps and interactive features editors. John Keefe tells us about learning as you go, cicadas, and how the WNYC Data News team came to be.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 15
- By Erika Owens
The web journalism world descends on Atlanta this week, where OpenNews will host a party at the local makerspace, Freeside.
Project Let research apps, MVC JavaScript, and APIs work for you
- By Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- Agustin Armendariz, Michael Corey, Aaron Williams
- The Center for Investigative Reporting
The Center for Investigative Reporting continues their work visualizing Department of Veterans Affairs’ data. Here, they discuss their development process.
Roundup Event Roundup, Oct 8
- By Erika Owens
Investigative journalists gather in Rio de Janeiro this week, while Hacks/Hackers meetups happen in North America and Europe.
Roundtable US Shutdown Scuttles Data
- By Dan Sinker
- Waldo Jaquith, Chris Keller, Mike Migurski, Ryan Pitts, Matt Stiles, Ben Welsh
- Census Reporter, Code for America, KPCC, NPR, The Los Angeles Times
As the government shutdown grinds into its third day, many news developers, civic data hackers, and open gov activists are starting to feel the hurt due to the suspension of most government data feeds, APIs, and websites. How they’re adapting and collaborating to fill the gaps of the shutdown.
Event A cybersecurity installfest for journalists
Mike Tigas recaps the recent security-for-journalists talk and installfest at Hacks/Hackers NYC.
Roundup Event Roundup, Sept 30
- By Erika Owens
Radio hackathon this weekend in Santiago, Chile, plus tons of Hacks/Hackers events coming up in October.
